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Unhooking from Whiteness

The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Cleveland Hayes

    1. University of Laverne, USA

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  2. Nicholas D. Hartlep

    1. Illinois State University, USA

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  • Unhooking from whiteness is different as it explores the “whys” and “hows” of Whiteness, and suggests approaches to unhook oneself from it.

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Toward a Lesser Shade of White

    • Cleveland Hayes, Brenda G. Juárez, Matthew T. Witt, Nicholas D. Hartlep
    Pages 1-16

  3. Too White to be Black and Too Black to be White

    • Cleveland Hayes
    Pages 29-31

  4. Learning to Take the Bullet and More

    • Brenda Juárez
    Pages 44-51

  5. Privileging Privilege with the Hope of Accessing Privilege

    • Karla Martin
    Pages 53-56

  6. I Refuse to be a Pawn for Whiteness

    • Nicholas D. Hartlep
    Pages 57-70

  7. Repositioning the Hook

    • Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell, Dana L. Bickmore, Steven Bickmore
    Pages 71-91

  8. English Ivy

    • Matthew Witt
    Pages 93-101

  9. Our Journeys as Latin@ Educators and the Perpetual Struggle to Unhook from Whiteness

    • Rosa Mazurett-Boyle, René Antrop-González
    Pages 103-121

  10. Interrupting the Racial Triangulation of Asians

    • Nicholas D. Hartlep, Cleveland Hayes
    Pages 123-131

  11. Afterword

    • Joy L. Lei
    Pages 133-136

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 137-151
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The purpose of Unhooking from Whiteness: The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States is to reconsider the ways and strategies in which antiracist scholars do their work, as well as to provide pragmatic ways in which people – White and of color – can build cross-racial, cross-communal, and cross-institutional coalitions to fight White supremacy. Employing the methodology of autoethnography, each chapter in this book illustrates the individual journey that the chapter contributor took to “unhook” him or herself from Whiteness. Unhooking from Whiteness explains Whiteness in ways never conceptualized before. The chapters suggest approaches to “unhooking” from Whiteness, while sharing the authors’ continual struggles to identify and eradicate the role of Whiteness in education and society in the United States. The contributors to Unhooking from Whiteness offer us the invaluable gift of their stories, humble reflections on commitments to racial justice and complicities with racial injustice. But they aren’t merely stories – and this is the brilliance of the book – they are invitations into a reconsideration of the “common sense” discussions about the nature of white privilege, the possibility of white anti-racism, and the pervasive tug of whiteness. This is the rare book that shifts the angle and changes the conversation. Paul Gorski, Coordinator of the Social Justice Concentration, George Mason University

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Laverne, USA

    Cleveland Hayes

  • Illinois State University, USA

    Nicholas D. Hartlep

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